Try as they might, the Wolves could not catch her.
One day the Wolf said to his mate: "My dear, let us play a trick on
that wise Goat. I will lie down here pretending to be dead. You go
alone to the cave where the Goat lives, and looking very sad, say to
her: 'My dear, do you see my mate lying there dead? I am so sad; I
have no friends. Will you be good to me? Will you come and help me
bury the body of my mate?' The Goat will be sorry for you and I think
she will come here with you. When she stands beside me I will spring
upon her and bite her in the neck. Then she will fall over dead, and
we shall have good meat to eat."
The Wolf then lay down, and his mate went to the Goat, saying what she
had been told to say.
But the wise Goat said: "My dear, all my family and friends have been
eaten by your mate I am afraid to go one step with you. I am far safer
here than I would be there."
"Do not be afraid," said the Wolf. "What harm can a dead Wolf do to
you?"
These and many more words the Wolf said to the Goat, so that at last
the Goat said she would go with the Wolf.
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